I think I've just about decided I am getting too old for online games...

I'm only 21, but I'm just about sick of playing online games. I usually have fun for a couple of hours but then I just rage so hard at the most miniscule things it's insane.


I'm not a violent person at all, in fact I am a pacifist. There isn't a violent bone in my body, I won't even spank my dog when he bites too hard from playing. It takes a LOT of energy to make me mad, but online games man...just...jesus.


I was playing Halo 4 and I nearly threw my xbox across the room I got so mad. I'm pretty new to the game, and we were playing on a map I didn't know. My team was losing, which didn't really bother me, but every single dang time I turned around someone in a ghost was shooting me and killed me. I went 10-21 in that game I can assure you 18 of those 21 were from ghost attacks.

It was the most rage filled minutes I have ever seen. EVERY TIME I SPAWNED a dang ghost was there, waiting to kill me. We kept blowing them up, but they just kept coming and coming. I was raging so hard, I've never raged that bad before. It was just so incredibly stupid. We didn't even lose by a whole lot.

After tossing my controller on the floor in disgust, I stupidly decide to play Black Ops 2, thinking it will calm me down. Everything is going fine until I get shot down by someone crouching in a corner on a high ledge, that you can only reach by 1 way. I quit and turned off the xbox.


Back when I was a kid/young teen online gaming wasn't like this. It was amazingly fun. Over the years it's just gotten so much worse, PEOPLE have gotten so much worse. Now you could be playing with soccer moms and mid-life crisis dads, this didn't happen back in the day. I mean you always had issues, but never the amount of red-seeing rage.

Anyway, anybody else feel similar?

Online gaming is for antisocial people.

I generally don't enjoy playing competitively. And I really don't like playing against the type of people who are dead-set on minmaxing every aspect of the game. But there's plenty of multiplayer games out there that just let you have some casual, relaxing fun every now and then. I stay away from military shooters though since they just bore the fuck out of me these past few years.

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is one of the best multiplayer experiences I've had in years. I've played it about an hour per day on average since december, just having fun with random people and a couple of familiar regulars. Sure, you get those types of minmaxing players every now and then who only pick Man At Arms and tend to have a very annoying attitude, but on the whole I'm having a lot more fun moments than frustrating ones.



Whatever you do, stay away from MOBAs though. They are notorious for bringing out the absolute worst sides in people.

Local multiplayer is where it's at. I've had great times playing black ops with system link with four people on two consoles, even though I'm not a big fps fan. Games always more fun with a friend, sometimes I forget what is like though because I'm usually bymyself when I game. I had done friends over not too long ago and we played darkstalkers vampire hunter and radiant silvergun on my Saturn, I had forgotten how much fun two player games locally was.

A few years back my buddies and I would nerd it up every Sunday and link up our X-Boxes to play Halo 1. It went for at least a year. When two came out we thought it would be awesome being able to play online but it ruined everything. Aside from game being gunked up with a bunch crap that wasn't needed and as good as we were, and we were pretty game good, it was really irritating playing against people who that's all they they did. After a about a month we stopped playing. To many 13 year olds with nothing better to do.

I used to have a co-worker who won like second a national Halo 2 Championship. He talked about all sorts of spawn patterns and strategies that had nothing to do with being able to kill someone. It was lame.

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Originally Posted by Iron Lizard

A few years back my buddies and I would nerd it up every Sunday and link up our X-Boxes to play Halo 1. It went for at least a year. When two came out we thought it would be awesome being able to play online but it ruined everything. Aside from game being gunked up with a bunch crap that wasn't needed and as good as we were, and we were pretty game good, it was really irritating playing against people who that's all they they did. After a about a month we stopped playing. To many 13 year olds with nothing better to do.

I used to have a co-worker who won like second a national Halo 2 Championship. He talked about all sorts of spawn patterns and strategies that had nothing to do with being able to kill someone. It was lame.

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EXACTLY

I just started playing Halo 4 a couple of nights ago, I should not be paired with people who've been playing since launch and are max level with everything unlocked. It's not fair to people with jobs and lives that we have to play agaisnt people who have nothing better to do all day than play Halo until the wee hours of the morning. If you are talking to me about spawn patterns, you play too much. Simple as that.

The whole system of progressions and unlocks popularized by CoD is unfortunately very shoehorned into modern first person multiplayer games where fairness and balance should be a key feature. But constantly filling up meters for the next level is a very effective "hook" and hence it has turned into a very cynical design choice. Play something like Counter-Strike if you don't need any of that fluff.

Avoid mainstream shooters, as that's where the kids are at. If you want a near hassle-free shooter experience, play Doom online or Quake 2 or Duke Nukem, not had any crap on there.

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That looks AWESOME.

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Back when I was a kid/young teen online gaming wasn't like this.

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Yes it was, it was exactly the same, but with slow modem speeds we couldn't always call each other dicks with voice chat.

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Now you could be playing with soccer moms and mid-life crisis dads

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That's odd, I always blame those stupid 13 year old's. (also most soccer mom's don't play halo/cod/etc, they hardly game at all)

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Anyway, anybody else feel similar?

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Neh, I don't online game, I tried too but I found everything to be too much based around speed, like back in the day I'd want to
play a game of Battlefield Vietnam, and every damn game would start with everybody racing to the helicopters,
and if you were not there on time you´d lose your fucking ride! then 4 seconds after takeoff it would turn out the person piloting
would not know how to fly so we´d all go crashing down to our fiery deaths.
Though to be honest it was kinda comical crashing while Surfing Bird was playing in the background.
and in the event we didn't crash everybody would race around at light speed just slaughtering the other side like it was quake 3.
I guess I was kinda dumb for wanting some realism in my game, but yeah.. when you´re young.

Then there was the time I tried World of Warcraft, but they were just douche-bags running from job to job, I´m not even calling them Quests,
because they were goddamn fetching jobs, GO THERE AND BEAT 5 MONSTERS THEN TALK TO THAT NPC, WELL DONE
NOW GO THERE AND BEAT 4 MONSTERS, NOW GO.. oh some kid challenging for the quest of having a bigger e/penis.
no thank you, just doing fetching jobs here, which is apparently game play, ah fuck this i´m just gonna run into the world
and exploooooooooore oh i died because the game was designed to make you play fetching jobs for as long as possible aka leveling up,
OOH NEW EXPANSION the panda isle´s of fetching!

play half life online? ok.. spawning, running around.. aah sniped from a place that you can´t reach without knowing some bunny hopping trick against the wall.

Online gaming has always been stupid, or those people who would join a CLAN! oh god..
I knew this guy, he was always talking about his clan like it was his damn wife.
His clan had won a great battle! next one was coming Sunday, they would win again!

what's that?, back in the day death matches were fun?.. yeah because coming across that one guy without a life who practiced
every fucking second of his free time was so much fun. http://www.sega-16.com/forum/images/icons/yuck.gif

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I've done about 10 minutes of online gaming, max.
Once on SSF 4 and then again on Heavy Weapon with a Canadian friend. And never again.

I think I've just realized I was born dead for online gaming.

Competitive multiplayer is most fun local . . . LAN or split-screen. Short of that, doing it online with friends you know personally (and can have FUN with . . . not mindless aggressive competition) is OK too.

On the other end of things, there's cooperative multiplayer, and again, I'd place that better local than online, but both can be fun if you have a good set-up and good friends to play with.

In general, playing online with random people isn't nearly as fun . . . playing with friends and friends of friends is way more fun. (and actually worth having voice chat enabled)

I haven't personally done much of that online (partially since I haven't delved much into my backlog of wanted modern games yet), but those are solid preferences to be sure.

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Originally Posted by Iron Lizard

A few years back my buddies and I would nerd it up every Sunday and link up our X-Boxes to play Halo 1. It went for at least a year. When two came out we thought it would be awesome being able to play online but it ruined everything. Aside from game being gunked up with a bunch crap that wasn't needed and as good as we were, and we were pretty game good, it was really irritating playing against people who that's all they they did. After a about a month we stopped playing. To many 13 year olds with nothing better to do.

I used to have a co-worker who won like second a national Halo 2 Championship. He talked about all sorts of spawn patterns and strategies that had nothing to do with being able to kill someone. It was lame.

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That's what me and my friends did every Friday, we ran some Ethernet cable to the garage (heated), one team was in the garage, the other team was in the house. We had enough people to Max the game out, this went on about 2002- 2008. We mostly played CTF, the longest single match we played ended up taking over 2 hours (halo 1 on bloodgulch CTF).

We played all over the place, bars, comic book shops, other peoples houses, out of town, out of state. Get to meet a bunch of people.

Wait a minute, you can play games online? In my day, it was just a hub to seduce underage girls into illegal sex.

online gaming ? whats that ?

i never bothered ( or cared ) for online gaming outside an mmo
and even those i tend to treat as a single player game ( they are all mindless grinding and fetch quests anyway ) im only playing sw tor because its the closest to a kotor 3 i am likely going to get

I used to spend alot of time doing competitive online games, Namely starcraft, Unreal tournament and some others. I actually enjoyed it alot but i stopped playing those games as i did not feel it was healthy for me.
I took it a bit too seriously and would literally lose sleep over a couple lost Starcraft matches. Im a more zen person now.